David Macey, 1949-2011

Biographer of the French intellectual Left

RP 171 Neil Belton, Peter Osborne

David Macey died from complications of lung cancer on 7 October. He embodied the paradox of being a fine public intellectual while remaining an intenselyprivate person. He was one of the best intellectual historians of his generation and added appreciably to scholarly knowledge, yet did his most significant work as a freelance writer outside the [...]

157 Reviews

RP 157 Harry Harootunian, Steve Hinchliffe, Douglas Spencer, Olena Kobzar, David Macey, Phillip Cole, Tony Venezia

István Mészáros, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century Harry Harootunian Sandra Harding, Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialitiesand Modernities Steve Hinchliffe Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson and Vassilis Tsianos, Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century Douglas Spencer Mark Neocleous, Critique of Security Olena Kobzar Thomas C. Hilde, ed., [...]

151 Reviews

RP 151 Christian Kerslake, Monique David-Ménard, Nina Power, Kaye Mitchell, David Macey, Peter Kapos

The zero of real conflict Monique David-Ménard, Deleuze et la psychanalyse: L’altercation, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2005. 186 pp., €22.00 pb., 2 13 055081 9. Christian Kerslake As its subtitle indicates, this book stages an ‘altercation’ between Deleuze and psychoanalysis. The psychoanalysis in question is that of Freud and Lacan. Monique David-Ménard’s first book, [...]

146 Reviews

RP 146 Liam O’Ruairc, David Macey, Harry Harootunian

Jean-Jacques Lecercle, A Marxist Philosophy of Language Simon Jarvis Henri Alleg, The Question David Macey Penelope J. Corfield, Time and the Shape of History Harry Harootunian Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis and Slavoj Žižek, eds, Lenin Reloaded:Toward a Politics of Truth Liam O’Ruairc  

141 Reviews

RP 141 Ken Hirschkop, Joseph McCarney, Kerstin Stakemeier, Michelle Speidel, David Macey, Howard Feather

Timothy Brennan, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right Ken Hirschkop Tony Smith, Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account Joseph McCarney Boris Groys and Michael Hagemeister, eds, Die Neue Menschheit: Biopolitische Utopien in Russland zu Beginn des 20 Jahrhunderts Boris Groys and Aage Hansen-Löve, eds, Am Nullpunkt: Positionen derrussischen Avantgarde Boris Groys, Anne [...]

136 Reviews

RP 136 David Macey, John Kraniauskas, Martin Ryle, Alberto Toscano, Nickolas Lambrianou, Frances Stracey, Drew Milne

Sara Beardsworth, Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity Tina Chanter and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, eds, Revolt, Affect, Collectivity:The Unstable Boundaries of Kristevaʼs Polis Cecilia Sjöholm, Kristeva and the Political David Macey Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason John Kraniauskas Matthew Beaumont, Utopia Ltd: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870–1900 Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The [...]

130 Reviews

RP 130 John Kraniauskas, Françoise Vergès, Simon Glendinning, David Macey, Monica Mookherjee, James Tobias, Mark Neocleous, Howard Feather, Rene Talbot

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life John Kraniauskas Neil Lazarus, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies Janna Thompson, Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Justice Françoise Vergès Alessandra [...]

128 Reviews

RP 128 David Macey, Andrew Bowie, John Kraniauskas, David Cunningham, Nina Power, Philip Derbyshire, Michael O’Sullivan, Liam O Ruairc, Aislinn O’Donnell

Claudine Frank, ed., The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader David Macey Judith Norman and Alexander Welchman, eds, The New Schelling Andrew Bowie Pheng Cheah, Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation John Kraniauskas Ben Watson, Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation David Cunningham Judith Butler, Precarious [...]

123 Reviews

RP 123 Jon Beasley-Murray, Joseph McCarney, David Cunningham, Philip Derbyshire, David Macey, Mihail Dafydd Evans, Jared Woodard

Eduardo Mendieta, ed., Latin American Philosophy: Currents, Issues, Debates Eugene Gogol, The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation: Fusing Emancipatory Philosophic Thought and Social Revolt Fidel Castro, On Imperialist Globalization: Two Speeches Jon Beasley-Murray Stathis Kouvelakis, Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx Joseph McCarney Henri Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution David Cunningham Ranjana Khanna, [...]

122 Reviews

RP 122 Ben Watson, Monica Mookherjee, John Kraniauskas, Barbara Caine, David Macey, Sean Sayers, Vasiliki Tsakiri

Raoul Vaneigem, A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings: On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man Ben Watson William E. Connolly, Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed William E. Connolly, Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox Monica Mookherjee Christopher J. Arthur, The New Dialectic and Marxʼs ʻCapitalʼ John Kraniauskas Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination [...]

114 Reviews

RP 114 Peter Osborne, David Cunningham, Jon Goodbun, Stella Sandford, Alessandra Tanesini, David Macey

Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom, eds, New British Philosophy: The Interviews Peter Osborne Stuart Elden, Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History David Harvey, Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography David Cunningham and Jon Goodbun Nancy Bauer, Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophy and Feminism Stella Sandford Wendy Brown, Politics Out [...]

110 Reviews

RP 110 Fredric Jameson, David Macey, Roger Harris, Terence Sullivan, Sean Sayers, Andrew McGettigan, Dominic Willsdon, Jocelyn Maclure

Georg Lukács, A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic Fredric Jameson Julia Kristeva, The Sense and Non-sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis Dominique Lecourt, The Mediocracy: French Philosophy since the Mid-1970s David Macey Christopher Norris, Minding the Gap: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Two Traditions Roger [...]

109 Reviews

RP 109 David Macey, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Alessandra Tanesini, Andrew Fisher, Robin Durie, Ben Watson, Nathan Widder, Roger Harris, David Murray, Mark Neocleous

Ted Honderich, Philosopher: A Kind of Life David Macey Peter Osborne, Philosophy in Cultural Theory Jean-Jacques Lecercle Will Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship Alessandra Tanesini Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Neo-Avant-garde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 Andrew Fisher Stella Sandford, The Metaphysics of Love: Gender [...]

107 Reviews

RP 107 John Kraniauskas, Philip Derbyshire, Nick Stone, Carol Watts, Ross Poole, Alan Sinfield

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference Harry Harootunian, Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Community in Interwar Japan John Kraniauskas David Macey, Frantz Fanon: A Life Philip Derbyshire Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West Nick Stone Denise Riley, The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, [...]

106 Reviews

RP 106 Stewart Martin, Lynne Segal, Jonathan Joseph, Nathan Widder, Ben Highmore, Jane Chamberlain, Iain MacKenzie, James Penney, Erica Fudge, Andrew Fisher, Ben Watson

Alain Badiou, Manifesto for Philosophy Stewart Martin Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer, A Natural History of Rape Lynne Segal Diana Coole, Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism Jonathan Joseph Paul Patton, Deleuze and the Political Nathan Widder Ian Buchanan, Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist Ben Highmore Joseph McCarney, Hegel on History Jane Chamberlain Samuel C. Wheeler III, Deconstruction [...]

104 Reviews

RP 104 Sean Sayers, Giles Peaker, Peter Hallward, Bruce Robbins, Beate Jahn, Craig Brandist, David Macey, Espen Hammer, Benjamin Noys, Mark Neocleous

G.A. Cohen, If Youʼre an Egalitarian, How Come Youʼre So Rich? Sean Sayers Lutz Koepnick, Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power Esther Leslie, Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism Giles Peaker Alexander García Düttmann, Between Cultures: Tensions in the Struggle for Recognition Peter Hallward Ross Poole, Nation and Identity Bruce Robbins Kimberly Hutchings, International Political Theory: [...]

102 Reviews

RP 102 Stella Sandford, David Macey, Sean Sayers, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Matthew Beaumont, Espen Hammer, Mark Ryder

Simon Glendinning, ed., The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy Stella Sandford Jean Laplanche, Essays on Otherness David Macey Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues Stuart Hampshire, Justice is Conflict Sean Sayers Penelope Deutscher and Kelly Oliver, eds, Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman Jean-Jacques Lecercle Max Blechman, ed., Revolutionary Romanticism Matthew [...]

98 Reviews

RP 098 Kate Soper, Roger Harris, Stephen Mulhall, Harry Harootunian, Steve Giles, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, David Macey, Mike Gane, Andrew Collier, Yael Navaro-Yashin

Peter Coates, Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient Times Tim Hayward, Political Theory and Ecological Values Kate Soper Jan Golinski, Making Knowledge Natural: Constructivism and the History of Science Roger Harris Morris Dickstein, ed., The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law and Culture Stephen Mulhall Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity Harry Harootunian [...]

97 Reviews

RP 097 Ben Watson, Andrew Bowie, Anthony Arblaster, Robin May Schott, Judith Still, Alison Ainley, Elliot Jurist, David Macey, Francesca Cauchi, Tony Skillen

Edmond Wright and Elizabeth Wright, eds, The Žižek Reader Ben Watson Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism Andrew Bowie Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin: A Life Anthony Arblaster Maria Pia Lara, Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere Robin May Schott Maurice Godelier, The Enigma of the Gift Judith Still Alessandra Tanesini, An Introduction to [...]

96 Reviews

RP 096 Terry Eagleton, Stephen Houlgate, Elin Diamond, Alexander García Düttmann, David Macey, Mark Neocleous, Marianna Papastephanou, Chris Arthur, John Kraniauskas

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Writings Terry Eagleton H.S. Harris, Hegelʼs Ladder, I: The Pilgrimage of Reason H.S. Harris, Hegelʼs Ladder, II: The Odyssey of Spirit Stephen Houlgate Christine Battersby, The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity Elin Diamond Theodor W. Adorno, Metaphysik: Begriffe und Probleme Alexander García Düttmann Simon [...]

Fanon, phenomenology, race

RP 095 David Macey

ʻThe black man is not. Nor the white.ʼ1 Thus Fanon in the concluding section of Peau noire, masques blancs (1952), in my translation. It is quite impossible to work with the existing versions, the most obvious index of that impossibility being the unfortunate decision to translate the title of Chapter 5 as ʻThe Fact of Blacknessʼ and not [...]

94 Reviews

RP 094 Ben Watson, David Macey, Gideon Calder, Martin Ryle, Michael Löwy, Kathleen Lennon, Andrew Fisher, Carol Watts

Theodor W. Adorno, Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music Pamela M. Potter, Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitlerʼs Reich Ben Watson Manfred Frank, The Subject and the Text Patrick ffrench and Roland-François Lack, eds, The Tel Quel Reader David Macey Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country [...]

92 Reviews

RP 092 David Macey, Chris Arthur, Iain MacKenzie, Bob Brecher, Rosalind Minsky, Christian Kerslake, Kath Renark Jones, Gideon Calder, Austin Harrington

Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan David Macey Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition Chris Arthur Keith Ansell Pearson, Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition Keith Ansell Pearson, ed., Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer Iain MacKenzie Maureen Ramsay, Whatʼs Wrong with Liberalism? Bob Brecher Bernard Burgoyne and Mary [...]

88 Reviews

RP 088 Jonathan Rée, Anne Seller, Lois McNay, David Macey, Gideon Calder, Willy Maley, David Archard

Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes Brian Vickers, ed., Francis Bacon: A Critical Edition of the Major Works Jonathan Rée Jodi Dean, ed., Feminism and the New Democracy: Resisting the Political Anne Seller Charles E. Reagan, Paul Ricoeur: His Life and His Work Richard Kearney, ed., Paul Ricoeur: Hermeneutics of Action [...]

87 Reviews

RP 087 Kathleen Lennon, Diana Coole, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Sheila Rowbotham, David Macey, Tobias Abse, Udo Schüklenk, Stella Sandford, Gideon Calder, Ellen-Raïssa Jackson, David Roden, Austin Harrington

Tim Crane, The Mechanical Mind Frank Jackson and David Braddon Mitchell, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition Jaegwon Kim, Philosophy of Mind Georges Rey, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind Galen Strawson, Mental Reality David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory Gregory McCulloch, The Mind and Its World Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: [...]

86 Reviews

RP 086 Roger Harris, Simon Bromley, Stuart Elden, Tony Skillen, Gill Jagger, David Macey, Christian Kerslake, Iain MacKenzie, Stephen G. Horton

Daniel C. Dennett, Kinds of Minds Roger Harris Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century Simon Bromley Martin Heidegger, Hölderlinʼs Hymn ʻThe Isterʼ Dominique Janicaud, The Shadow of That Thought: Heidegger and the Question of Politics Stuart Elden Andrew Blake, Body Language: The Meaning of Modern Sport [...]

85 Reviews

RP 085 Gordon Finlayson, Alex Callinicos, David Snelling, Gill Howie, David Archard, Ian Hunt, David Macey, Francesca Cauchi, Margaret Whitford, Paul Gilbert, Ian Craib, Diana Coole

Peter Osborne, The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde Gordon Finlayson Michael Rosen, On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and the Theory of Ideology Alex Callinicos Jacques Bouveresse, Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious Donald Levy, Freud Among the Philosophers: The Psychoanalytic Unconscious and its Philosophical Critics David Snelling Linda Martín Alcoff, Real Knowing: [...]

84 Reviews

RP 084 David Macey, Max de Gaynesford, Willy Maley, Lois McNay, Stuart Elden, Moyra Haslett, Mark W. Turner, Chris Wilbert, Sean Sayers, Duncan J. Campbell, Candida Yates, Stephen Frosh, Chris Arthur

Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Renée T. White, eds, Fanon: A Critical Reader Alan Read, ed., The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation David Macey W.V. Quine, From Stimulus to Science Paolo Crivelli and Marco Santambrogio, eds, On Quine: New Essays Max de Gaynesford Christopher Norris, Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a [...]

82 Reviews

RP 082 Terry Eagleton, Graham Dawson, Paul Hockenos, David Macey, Janet Sayers, Rosalyn Diprose, Susan Mendus, Brian Dillon

Ronald Aronson, After Marxism Cyril Smith, Marx at the Millennium Jules Townsend, The Politics of Marxism Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg and Carole Biewener, eds, Marxism in the Postmodern Age Suke Wolton, ed., Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory Terry Eagleton Fred Inglis, Raymond Williams Graham Dawson Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia Paul Hockenos Bill Marshall, Guy [...]

81 Reviews

RP 081 Chris Arthur, David Archard, Meena Dhanda, David Macey, John Armitage, Stephen Cowley, Stella Sandford, Gideon Calder, Matthew David, Iain Wilkinson, Chris Erickson

István Mészáros, Beyond Capital Chris Arthur Keith Burgess-Jackson, Rape: A Philosophical Investigation Sue Lees, Carnal Knowledge: Rape on Trial David Archard Morwenna Griffiths, Feminisms and the Self: The Web of Identity Meena Dhanda Alan D. Schrift, Nietzscheʼs French Legacy David Macey Chris Hables Gray, ed., The Cyborg Handbook Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, eds, Posthuman [...]